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2010-05-04 China-Japan-Koreas
Taiwan says will not seek U.S. help to fight wars
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Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Politically smart announcement actually. Why ask for something you know you will not receive?
Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-04 01:35||   2010-05-04 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 DITTO SOUTH KOREA agz the DPRK.

CHINA has said it will not allow nor tolerate TAIWAN going nuclear, + one of their major Perts had stated that any US arms sold to Taiwan will eventually come under Chin control once reunification or integration wid the Mainland PRC formally takes place.

* ION WMF > FORMER JAPANESE PM OKAMOTO: PRESERVATION OF US-JAPAN SECURITY ALLIANCE, DETERRING OR PREVENTING CHINESE EXPANSION IS MORE IMPORTANT TO TOKYO THAN THE COSTS BURDEN OF US BASES AND ANTI-BASE POPULAR SENTIMENT.

* SAME > US MEDIA: IN ORDER FOR THE US TO GIVE UP ITS MIL BASES AGZ DISPOSABLE JAPAN, DAOYUS AND NEARBY DISPUTED ISLANDS MUST COME UNDER FORMAL SOVEREIGN JAPANESE CONTROL.

* SAME > THE COMING RUSSIA-CHINA-JAPAN WAR OVER SAKHALIN AND NORTH ASIA.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-04 01:38||   2010-05-04 01:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Smart planning. We've betrayed so many allies already.
Posted by Formerly Dan 2010-05-04 17:46||   2010-05-04 17:46|| Front Page Top

#4 TOPIX > GOVT. PLAN TO KEEP OKINAWA BASES ANGERS MANY JAPANESE.

NIPPON PCORRECTNESS > Tokyo tries to placate angry Japanese Voters-CXitizens by proclaiming to desire to keep the US Bases on Okinawa, IFF ONLY "IN PART/PARTIAL", in order to maintain the vital US-JAPAN SECURITY ALLIANCE [read, CHINA; sub-read, SPREAD RADICAL ISLAM in CENT-EAST ASIA].

versus

* WMF > RUSSIAN MEDIAS: CHINESE PLA WILL BE INVINCIBLE ONCE MODERNIZATION IS COMPLETE.

* SAME > SINO-RUSSIAN EURASIAN WAR FOR RIVERS AND RAILROADS: RUSSIAN MIL EXPERT ALEXANDER VLADORROVICH ALADIN BELIEVES PLA WILL ONLY NEED A COUPLE OF HOURS TO CONQUER THE RUSSIAN CITY OF KHABARROVSK, FEW WEEKS TO CONQUER RUSSIAN FAR EAST, + FEW MONTHS TO CONQUER WHOLE OF ONE-HALF OF URALS EAST. MIL LOSS OF ALL OF RUSS AFR EAST AND RUSS' MAJOR OIL-GAS FIELDS TO CHIN PLA MIL BLITZKRIEG. RUSSIA TOO WEAK TO EFFECTIVELY RESIST WIDOUT RESORT TO "MUTUAL DESTRUCTION" NUCLEAR WARFARE. LOSS OF ARCTIC ROUTES AND COASTS TO PLA WILL ULTIM THREATEN EASTERN RUSS + EUROPE.!?

** SAME WMF > US SCHOLAR BLUMENTHAL'S THREE OBJECTIONS IN COLLECTIVE TO "KAPLAN PLAN" AND "GARRETT PLAN" OF GEOPOL STRATEGIES AGZ CHINA.

To wit,

* As per "KAPLAN PLAN" {PRC defense of Straits of Malaccas, SOUTH ASIAN = INDIAN OCEAN Trade-Energy Routes], PLA will need to dev HIGHLY MOBILE, TECHY "EXPEDITIONARY FORCES/BATTLE GROUPS" to wage likely war agz INDIA in order to ensure Regional-Local Security.

* As per "GARRETT PLAN", US can withdraw potent milfors from throughout ASIA BUT WILL NEED TO MIL ENTRENCH IN OCEANIA [GUAM, CNMI, MICRONESIA] WHILE SIMUL MAINTAINING STRATEGIC LINES OF COMMUNICATIONS, MIL COOPERATION, OTHER TREATY ASSISTANCE with both INDIA + JAPAN. US must suppor RISE OF A RE-ARMED "STRONG.NUCLEAR JAPAN" AS A STRATEGIC ALLY IN PRO-US REGIONAL + PACIFIC DEFENSE = GEOPOL SECURITY.

* US will likely need to defer or delay ANY FORMAL OR PARTIAL REUNIFICATION OR INTEGRATION OF TAIWAN WID MAINLAND CHINA FOR A TIME YET, in order to maintan a foothold/semblance of US influence in EAST ASIA + mil protection of both INDIA + JAPAN + other PRO-US ALLIES, MODERATE STATES IN ASIA-PACIFIC. US MAY NEED TO FORMALLY BASE US MILFORS + GMD-TMD ON TAIWAN PROPER IRREGARDLESS OF THE CHINA-TAIWAN
"REUNIFICATION/INTEGRATION" ISSUES.

* SAME > THE TIGER [Japan], BEAR [Russia], AND EAGLE [USA=USN]CAUGHT IN THE SAME TRAP: SAKHALIN, TAIWAN, WEAK PHILIPPINES, AND HAINAN ARE CHINA'S KEY FRONTS IN WARTIME TO BREAKING THE FIRST ISLAND CHAIN. PREEMPTIVE NUCLEAR, CONVENTIONAL STRIKES AGZ JAPAN, RUSSIA, INDIA, + US CARRIER GROUPS.

*** TOPIX > WHOM WILL PREMPT WHOM?. Ostensibly Israel-vs-Iran-Hezb, but ARTIC can also apply to ASIA-PACIFIC given probs of NPT.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-04 22:01||   2010-05-04 22:01|| Front Page Top

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